ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Herbicidal efficacy of some natural products and mulching compared to herbicides for weed control in onion fields
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Botany Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt
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Plant Protection Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt
A - Research concept and design; B - Collection and/or assembly of data; C - Data analysis and interpretation; D - Writing the article; E - Critical revision of the article; F - Final approval of article
Submission date: 2019-04-09
Acceptance date: 2019-06-03
Online publication date: 2020-01-08
Corresponding author
Journal of Plant Protection Research 2019;59(4):479-486
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ABSTRACT
of 10, 15 and 20%, acetic acid at the rate of 20, 30 and 40%, oxadiargyl, oxyflurfen, rice
straw mulch, hand hoeing and an unweeded check control treatment) on weed growth
and onion productivity in sandy soils at the Agricultural Experimental Station of the National
Research Centre, Egypt was studied. The results indicated that all weeded treatments
reduced the dry weight of broadleaf, grassy and total weeds as compared with the weedy
check. Oxadiargyl, followed by two hand hoeing, rice straw mulch and acetic acid 40% recorded
the greatest weed control efficiency. Insignificant differences were noticed between
these treatments. Applying rice straw mulch increased bulb length, bulb diameter, bulb
weight and onion yield by 67.52, 57.55, 45.74 and 66.22% over the weedy check, respectively.
The highest values of N, P and K were obtained from rice straw mulch treatment followed
by hand hoeing, oxadiargyl and acetic acid 40% treatments. It may be concluded that
farmers can certainly depend on mulching or acetic acid at 40% instead of using chemical
herbicides especially in organic farm systems for controlling onion weeds.
FUNDING
This work was supported and funded by the National
Research Centre through the project entitled: Some
strategies for improving weed control efficacy in some
export crops. Project No. (11040202), during in-house
projects strategy 2016–2019.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exist.
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